**** DONE: 1/48 P-40N RAAF - Aircraft in Foreign Service WWII

[Crimea_River]

Sllck work Bill!

 

[Wayne Little]

All refreshed and ready to go...

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Love your panache Bill. You've also a good eye for the detail.

 

[T Bolt]

Looking good Bill

 

[ccheese]

Looking good Bill

I'll say !!

Charles

 

[N4521U]

Love your panache Bill. You've also a good eye for the detail.

One good eye! the other one is a rock!

 

[N4521U]

So this day I have worked on the tail feathers. Had trouble with my castings, filed them off too much and would have to recast. But the molds are back-ups. So I just used the Scalpel to finely cut the pieces off at the lines. I hve attached the stabs to the rear section befor eattaching the lot. The stabs haven't fitted all the well, there is a slight step at the fairing I will have to file down to match, the use the tip of a drill to put the dimples ot the rivets back in.

I sailor on.

 

[woody]

Looking good Bill.

 

[N4521U]

Thanks Woody......
Today the fusey is alllll together. Somw seam work to clean-up then the wings.
I did a "wash" of sorts inside the cockpit............... kinda sorta!

 

[ccheese]

Really looks good, Bill. Love that cockpit !

Charles

 

[Crimea_River]

Yeah, me too.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

I could say the cockpit could do with another wash as it is looking a bit grubby………………but I won't.!!

Seriously though, it looks kind'a cool Bill.

 

[Wayne Little]

Not bad at all Bill!

 

[N4521U]

Thanks guys.
The wings are attached. Filling gaps and seams.

 

[T Bolt]

Cool!

 

[N4521U]

Moving rather quickly now.

Filled the corners of the front on the sliding part of the canopy with a bit of styrene, it is Not cut at an agle as supplied in the kit. It's square to fit behind the little gusset at the front on the canopy rails.

Hand cut the glass masks.

Filled all the gaps and replaced the rivet marks along the fairings.

Now I just need to match colors............ I hate trying to find which ones I need to use.

 

[T Bolt]

Looking real good Bill. Isn't that paint scheme the standard Olive Drab and Neutral Gray?

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Those canopy masks look so professional, you sure it's not a masking set!

 

[Wurger]

Well done.

 

[Crimea_River]

Great masking work Bill, but before you squirt some paint on the rear canopy, I read somewhere that the frames weren't really there. Rather the canopy was made of sheets of plexiglas fused together, leaving a seam that was opaque but not green like a frame would be.

I'm in the process of checking this info but wanted to give you a heads up.